UMTerp Tournament Results Feb 8th.

All,

Here are the results of the tournament for Saturday. I put a few of you that didn't play on this list too if I thought you'd be interested. Some of these details are going to be fuzzy or non-existent, because I lost that paper I was jotting stuff down on (shocker!), and I'm doing this from memory. At the very least, the final table order is correct though.

The structure worked well again, and almost everyone got plenty of play in the early going. We only had one bustout before the first break, and there were still 19 of the 27 players remaining at the second break almost three hours into the tournament. Holly was the chip leader pretty much from the start of the tournament to the final table - she cracked the 10K chip mark really early. She busted our defending champ, Jeremy in 13th or so, me in 11th, and when Jesse finished in 10th (I think Big Chris knocked him out?), our final table was set.

Big Chris never got much going at the final table, and finished in 9th. Groo has a fairly short stack to start the final table as well, and was our 8th place finisher. Then it seemed like we played forever until somebody else got knocked out. In the meantime, Damon had doubled through Holly at least once, was building quite a nice stack, and gained the chip lead. Daryl finished in 7th when his AcQx went up against Damon's J8 on a Qc Jc 4c flop. A jack hit the turn, the few remaining chips went in, and we were down to six. Joey became our bubble boy when Damon hit a gutshot straight against Joey's two pair to knock him out in 6th.

At this point, there were 54,000 chips on the table, and I'd guess Damon had well over 30,000. I don't remember anything noteworthy about the next three eliminations, but Brian finished in 5th for $120, Ben in 4th for $200, and Holly's run came to an end in 3rd Place for $285. That left us heads up with Peter, who nursed a small stack for most of the final table, playing a patient push/fold game, and Damon, whose strategy might best be characterized as "unabashed drunken aggression." Damon had Peter outchipped about 48K to 6K to start heads-up. Blinds were 600/1200. Despite Peter doubling up early to get his stack up to about 12K, Damon took down the title rather quickly when his 96 beat Peter's A3 on a flop that was something like 764. We ended at about 1:15, which I thought was pretty reasonable, considering the initially slow structure, and the number of players.

Final Table Results:

1. Damon - $610
2. Peter - $400
3. Holly - $285
4. Ben - $200
5. Brian - $120
6. Joey
7. Daryl
8. Dave
9. Big Chris


-UMTerp